Random House New Releases - Music - Electronic & Computerhttp://www.randomhouse.com/category/www.randomhouse.com2006-03-13T11:23:00-05:00Electronic Awakening DVD by Julian Reyeswww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781583946817"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781583946817" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781583946817">Electronic Awakening DVD</a> Spirituality and Electronic Music Culture<br/><b>Produced by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=171756">Andrew Johner</a><br> <b>Created by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=171756">Andrew Johner</a> and <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=171757">Julian Reyes</a></h3><b>Video</b>0 | North Atlantic Books | Music - Electronic & Computer; Body, Mind & Spirit - Gaia & Earth Energies; Body, Mind & Spirit - Prophecy | <b>$19.50</b> | 978-1-58394-681-7 (1-58394-681-0)<p>Featuring footage with Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex Grey, Terence McKenna, Ken Kesey, Erik Davis, and Starhawk, this DVD is an ethnographic documentary film exploring the international "rave" phenomenon not as a party scene but as a reemergence of shamanic ritual. Showcasing the transcendental, spiritual, and communal effects of electronic dance music (EDM) events,&#160;<i>Electronic Awakening</i>&#160;strips away the common associations of drugs and hedonism, and demonstrates how the culture has evolved over the years into one that is conscious and sacred.&#160;<br>&#160;<br>In addition to interviewing people whose lives and minds were forever changed by their transcendent, we-are-all-one experiences on the dance floor, producer and anthropologist AC Johner ponders the cause of this mind-altering effect and suggests that the repetitive, mathematically perfect rhythms and oscillations of EDM have the power to create a communal "hive mind." Because more and more people are having this experience, he suggests, we could be on the verge of a mass transformation--one that would take us off the path of self-destruction and lead us into a new age of peace and harmony on Earth.<br><br>Producer and Director AC Johner is a culture-journalist and filmmaker. He is the author of <i>A Concise History of Heaven and Earth</i> and <i>The Singularity</i>. He is dedicated to producing written and visual ethnography on the shifting paradigm of human culture.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97815839468172013-10-29T00:30:00-05:00How to Wreck a Nice Beach by Dave Tompkinswww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612190921"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781612190921" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612190921">How to Wreck a Nice Beach</a> The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=107326">Dave Tompkins</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 352 pages | Stop Smiling Books | Music - History & Criticism; Music - Recording & Reproduction; Music - Electronic & Computer | <b>$25.95</b> | 978-1-61219-092-1 (1-61219-092-8)<p><b>The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon<br></b><br>The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular music.<br> <br>In <i>How to Wreck a Nice Beach</i>&#8212;from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase &#8220;how to recognize speech&#8221;&#8212;music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin&#8217;s gulags, from the 1939 World&#8217;s Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune. <br><br>We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, JFK, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, the Cylons, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, &#8220;We must go off!&#8221; And now vocoder technology is a cell phone standard, allowing a digital replica of your voice to sound human. <br><br>From T-Mobile to T-Pain, <i>How to Wreck a Nice Beach</i> is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music&#8217;s most provocative innovators.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97816121909212011-11-08T00:30:00-05:00How to Wreck a Nice Beach by Dave Tompkinswww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612190938"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781612190938" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781612190938">How to Wreck a Nice Beach</a> The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=107326">Dave Tompkins</a></h3><b>eBook</b>0 | Stop Smiling Books | Music - History & Criticism; Music - Recording & Reproduction; Music - Electronic & Computer | <b>$22.95</b> | 978-1-61219-093-8 (1-61219-093-6)<p><b>The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon<br></b><br>The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it was repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians, and is now the ubiquitous voice of popular music.<br> <br>In <i>How to Wreck a Nice Beach</i>&#8212;from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase &#8220;how to recognize speech&#8221;&#8212;music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin&#8217;s gulags, from the 1939 World&#8217;s Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune. <br><br>We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, JFK, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, the Cylons, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, &#8220;We must go off!&#8221; And now vocoder technology is a cell phone standard, allowing a digital replica of your voice to sound human. <br><br>From T-Mobile to T-Pain, <i>How to Wreck a Nice Beach</i> is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music&#8217;s most provocative innovators.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97816121909382011-11-08T00:30:00-05:00Book of Ice by Brian Greenewww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781935613145"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781935613145" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781935613145">Book of Ice</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=126007">Paul D. Miller</a><br> <b>Introduction by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=169627">Brian Greene</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 128 pages | powerHouse Books | Music - Electronic & Computer; Photography; History - Polar Regions | <b>$29.95</b> | 978-1-935613-14-5 (1-935613-14-6)<p>Antarctica, the only uninhabited continent, belongs to no single country and has no government. While certain countries lay claim to portions of the landmass, it is the only solid land on the planet with no unified national affiliation. Drawing on the continent&rsquo;s rich history of inspiring exploration and artistic endeavors, Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky has put together his own multimedia, multidisciplinary study of Antactica. <i>Book of Ice</i> is one aspect of this ongoing project. <br> &#160;<br> In light of climate change and tireless human enterprise to be present everywhere on the planet, Miller uses Antarctica as a point on entry for contemplating humanity&rsquo;s relationship with the natural world. Using photographs and film stills from his journey to the bottom of the world, along with original artworks and re-appropriated archival materials, Miller ponders how Antarctica could liberate itself from the rest of the world. Part fictional manifesto, part history and part science book, <i>Book of Ice</i> furthers Miller&rsquo;s reputation as an innovative artist capable of making the old look new.<br><br><i>The Book of Ice</i> contains an introduction by celebrated physicist Brian Greene, author of the bestselling <i>Fabric of the Cosmos</i>.<br><br>"This is not cool, this is freezing. I still have frostbite."<br> --Stefan Sagmeister<br><br> "A rare mind encounters a rare place--this is an entirely new take on the bottom of the world, very cool (but getting warmer)." <br><br> --Bill McKibben, American environmentalist, journalist, and author<br> &#160;<br> "Antarctica is full of wonder. Paul D Miller has visited and returned with treasure. You hold in your hand interviews, photographs, histories, architectural plans, propaganda, sheet music, hyperlinks and a manifesto demanding that you never set foot there. This is work as unbounded and untameable as the continent itself. Read it and feel dislocated in the best possible way."<br><br> --Raj Patel, author of<i> The Value of Nothing</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97819356131452011-07-19T00:30:00-05:00